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I have spent many happy hours going through all the entries for the competition to win a place in the pit at London Fashion Week. Wow, you’re a talented lot, as ever I was completely blown away.

But much as I’d love to fill the pit with lots of you, there can only be one winner. So… drum roll please……

Click to enlarge: Beauty by Laura McKinnon

The winner is Laura McKinnon who sent in this stunning photograph which I felt perfectly captured the theme of “beauty” and did so in a very contemporary way. Laura is an 18-year-old photographer based in Glasgow and you can find more of her… Read More

How would you like to try your hand in the photographers’ pit at London Fashion Week? Regular readers will remember that last season Canon kindly offered a place to one lucky reader to shoot a show alongside the pros.

I’m pleased to announce that Canon and I are going to run the competition again. If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning the spot in the pit, please email me up to three photos by 6pm Wednesday 16th February 2011 – that’s next week so get in quick!… Read More

So Prince William and the lovely Kate were airbrushed. Well, whad’ya know?

Surely it would have been more surprising if they hadn’t been? For a start the photographer was Mario Testino. He has never made a secret of his digital retouching. His signature style is to show subjects at their very best, that’s part of his thing, and, presumably, it’s one of the reasons that so many celebrities and royals favour him.

These pictures of William and Kate are classic Testino; graceful, natural, but beautifully polished. What else were we expecting? Perhaps the happy couple could have gone a little more rock and roll and… Read More

Click to enlarge: Ice sheet in front of a flower in Brian Valentine's back garden (Photo: Brian Valentine)

Cold weather might be miserably inconvenient for most of us but there’s no denying that it can also be breath-takingly beautiful. The picture desk have been inundated with glorious photographs of snowy landscapes and frozen cities sent in by readers, but this gallery has reminded me just how fascinating snow is itself.

If you see one film in the next month, make it Gareth Edwards’ Monsters.

I’m not really a monster movie kind of gal; alien invasions don’t usually do it for me. So it was something of a surprise to find myself utterly captivated by a world in which gigantic tentacled creatures have a nasty habit of appearing out of the darkness and destroying everything in their path.

The film is set long after the aliens have landed, 6 years on from the initial terror of invasion and people have learned to live with destructive extraterrestrial neighbours. Against thi… Read More

Click to enlarge: A student climbs on a police van (Photo: Eddie Mulholland)

Pictures from the student protests in London just flooded in yesterday. (You can see a gallery of more images here.) This beautiful photograph, taken by our own Eddie Mulholland, was the shot of the day for me.

I spoke to Eddie this morning and asked him what it was like to be in the middle of the scrum of photographers that surrounded the van and how he managed to get this shot.

He explained that when he took this he'd just finished a series of pictures of kids kicking and smashing the vehicle. The area was so crowded with photographers that all they were really able to take was each… Read More

The Kuwait Times reports this week that the government has decided that only photojournalists should be able to use digital slrs in public.

The paper says that “a big black camera tends to worry people”, which, of course, begs the question what about small white cameras? What constitutes a professional photojournalist anyway and if the problem with photography is that people don’t like strangers taking their picture, does it really make a different which camera you use?

Laughable? Perhaps, but interwoven with the frequent reports of photographers being stopped and searched in Britain in recent years has been the suspicion that people were being singled out based on the size of their cameras. Many photographer… Read More

Our gallery of some of Richard Avedon's most distinctive work reminded me of a wonderful discovery I made recently. All the family photographs taken when Avedon was a child featured a dog, borrowed especially for the occasion.

As he explained in an essay that accompanied an exhibition of his portraits in 2002: "All of the photographs in our family album were built on some kind of lie about who we were, and revealed a truth about who we wanted to be."

While his fashion work portrays a highly stylised aspirational sense of beauty, his portraits never sought to flatter. He deliberately shunned what he dubbed the “tradition of… Read More

Click for gallery: Muslim pilgrims heading to cast stones at the symbolic devil represented by a Jamarat (Burning Coal) in the tent city of Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, early 16 November 2010 (Photo: EPA/ Saudi Press Agency)

The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca has got to be one of most fascinating visual stories of the year. The combination of such vast numbers of people – more than two million made the trip to Mount Arafat near the holy city of Mecca this year – and Saudi Arabia’s rich November… Read More